The 5 Weirdest Speedruns Ever

[@Abyssoft]

The Hotplate and Paper Mario videos were a lot of fun to make, it's really cool to see someone's reaction to the stories I've put together. Also Orcarina.

[@Meester_]

Love your stuff dude!

[@1draigon]

But there was one more thing… Ocarina of time

[@BeeTriggerBee]

Except for the whole "heat raises the conductivity", We are talking about metals here. Heat lowers the conductivity of metal and cold raises it which is why we cool superconducters with liquid helium. Water however gains conductivity with an increase of temperature.

[@PilliamWilliam]

@@FlamingZelda3 fclhccçc

[@jenske2881]

Watching a whole event just for a guy to jump over a fence and then the all powerfull wizard getting beat up by farmers is really funny

[@6884]

it teaches a lot. We do live in a society, but also, we live in a society

[@muraleedharannambiar5167]

Farmers has defeated entire empires are u surprised on them defeating a old

[@miamisoda143]

Being a fan of atrioc is like being a fan of the 4 speed running strategies

[@skifzz1]

What is this supposed to mean lol

[@bowsercake3336]

I couldn’t agree more

[@bradystrouse6422]

@@skifzz1 I'm glad this guy gets it

[@Boundless-Boredom]

Exactly what I been saying this whole time

[@dean988]

thats what im sayin

[@Shiverskill]

One of the biggest brain speedrun tricks I remember was during a SimCity run at gdq. The runner wanted to actually run a different game, but the organizers wouldn't let him or something, so he did SimCity instead. There's a point in the SimCity run where you just plain wait for the game to complete, so he did his original game during that entire wait.

[@DesTr069]

Now THAT’s a sigma move

[@spiralphoenix9839]

Can someone please post the link. I wanna see this

[@methoxeta]

@@spiralphoenix9839 replying so i get a notification I wanna see this too

[@spiralphoenix9839]

@@methoxeta I found it. Just look up games done quick sim city speed run. It’ll probably be the first one. There should be a guy with a suit and tie

[@Skycastle]

Here you go . kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWK8q5-fi7Nlb7c

[@commander_frog]

You could tell speedrunners blowing up their console mid run would save a second and suddenly we’d lose a lot of consoles

[@KontrolYT]

Sounds like a sigma move to remove the competition.

[@bolivia4723]

Number 1: putting pickle relish on your fingers to maximize “glizziness” for the marketing skip, invented by Glizztopher “Atrioc” Brandon.

[@JcButay]

Quite a sly, dare I say sneaky joke about the Dream ruby, big A.

[@wastemmob5787]

Deceivingly unexpected of a former-Twitch-employee-turned-streamer.

[@ornj1]

Imagine mastering a tactical reload for Ocarina of Time to be the best at not playing Paper Mario

[@illjoy_]

The paper Mario one is literally like watching a “how to get the raygun in black ops 2 every time” video

[@saulmorris9639]

14:34 that happened to somebody, a guy named darkviper au spent like 2 full years developing strategies and runs to beat gta 5 without taking damage and recently some guy swooped in and got the first no damage run

[@dr.zoidburger7515]

Yeah I remember seeing a post about "the first speedeunner to beat gta with no damage" and I got hyped cause I thought darkviper finally got it, just to realize it wasn't him

[@OtterPirate]

I think gathering all the speedrunners together for a cancer curing speedrun, it would be interesting to see how fast it could be done

[@laogon09]

Quick guess for the Goldeneye one: The developers probably had some sort of failsafe against the chip/controller being damaged or whatever short circuit was happening as a result of it. It probably paused the in game physic/time until the problem was resolved. However, in most game engines, there are two clocks. The one that takes the physics of the world into account (FixedUpdate in Unity) and the one that runs every frame no matter what (the Update in Unity). So probably the objective was wrongfully coded on the "every frame" clock. I have been told by a speedrunning friend that this kind of exploit of tick vs physics is attempted in a lot of games to try to mess up the game and do crazy glitches, but it's still crazy that the setup for this one is to press down on the exposed chip of a second controller lmao Note: this explanation is a simplification of the concept, it doesn't exactly work as described in my comment, but the principle is there.

[@ZephrymWOW]

Alot of these setups are found via reverse engineering not just trial and error. They are widely reversed / documented generally using some form of code execution. Still very insane but these games have been scoured through line by line by many people

[@megadog9305]

I find it particularly annoying that he says "I don't understand how they figure this out" on the Paper Mario one, considering that *entire* video is explaining *how* they figured it out.

[@ubberJakerz]

8:13 looks like this guy didn't take highschool physics, or even read his own graph. Heating components REDUCES conductivity lmao, it doesn't make it more conductive like he says. This is why we super cool super conductors...

[@Lacie9]

This is a certified glizzy "atrioc" hands classic

[@Oceanatornowk]

I noticed that none of them had clown suits on. A huge time save in all of those runs 🤡

[@Racki19]

@Atrioc For the Goldeneye thing I think someone probably raged after realizing he would've gotten a new record if it wasn't for the waiting time, threw his plugged in controller, broke it, hit that exact spot and noticed it somehow skipped and then just reverse engineered from there

[@austinnfauceted5287]

Thank god this dropped, was getting tired of that "Practice and hone down your abilities in pursuit of perfection" bs

[@evernewb2073]

I've seen a TAS run where they use the game itself to write new code into the game to create functioning networking software *_for a console that does not natively have the ability to connect to the internet_* to download a custom operating system for the console, after which they proceed to use all of that to load and play an emulator for an entirely different game from an entirely different console, then proceed to just sorta run a glitch exhibition spanning a few different games. some GDQ exhibitions are just plain insane in the best way.

[@Bob13454]

What's it called? Can you link it?

[@evernewb2073]

@@Bob13454 no idea, I just remember that it was a GDQ glitch exhibition. lesse...the game in question _might_ have been a mario game (it wasn't part of the video for more than a few seconds so kinda fair that I don't remember if I can't remember the title) ...can't remember what console, reasonably sure it _was_ a console though so probably nes or n64? especially if actually mario. I think the makeshift internet was achieved through setting it up to send/read power supply fluctuations and possibly some further pre-prepped shenanigans on the rest of the hardware/software involved to make it so the router could actually interpret it.

[@thomasr1051]

The golden eye skip is easy to execute with a uniform result but is an added expense and inconvenience so imo it kind of just artificially takes time off a Speedrun

[@IronicHavoc]

Basically: "We could all do it with zero skill requirement, but it's a pain in the ass so let's agree not too."

[@thomasr1051]

@@IronicHavoc yeah exactly my thought. Obviously game breaking strats are exciting to see but what most people enjoy about speedrunning is human mastery and accessibility

[@HonkeyKongLive]

It's also hardware manipulation which is banned as a general rule.

[@thomasr1051]

@@HonkeyKongLive what about gamer grease on the disk? What does that count as?

[@bradenbecker]

This is a certified Brandon “Glizzy Hands” “Big A” “Sir Glizzington” “Remember the Greenout” “Grustler” “Agent Sigma-19” “Sarah” “Small balls, big shaft” “The Blev” “Mustard Boy” “Atrioc” “The Ghost” “Ewing” Ewing Classic.

[@AcheOfHead]

This is a certified Brandon "Grind Hustle" Ewing classic

[@gomjabbar6246]

15:51 ... this is the laugh of a madman

[@costcobongwater]

I can't believe that grilling your console for extra glitches is accepted, but an extra, open controller is going too far

[@mrbawkbawk]

Whoever said tool assisted in chat during the hot plate part... nice. I see you.

[@jurgeysamuel]

Imagine loving a game so much you see how fast you can not play it

[@_-LBARN-_]

Big A has some of the most consistently entertaining content on the platform

[@Skadidd]

You should do a video about the top 5 craziest glitches found. One of my personal favorites is Mario Bros for the NES. Where you can glitch the game by top-loading a tennis game. There are also the minus levels in that game which are weird.

[@Kosmicd12]

it's not like curing cancer lol. There are already way more qualified and dedicated people working on that. Not to mention speedrunners literally raise millions for cancer research every year lol

[@drummerofawe]

7:41 Ah, so this is the Dream strats I've been hearing about

[@bradlfsh]

Just created a time machine so I could go back to '99 and intimidate a Nintendo programmer into adding in a code that skips paper Mario

[@Yhurga0]

I just finished watching you play the Stanley parable. Do you think you could check out the game the beginners guide? This will prolly get buried but oh well :)

[@SunsetInStone]

What’s your profile picture? I really like it. Can you send a link with a space in it?

[@jarod144]

What are you doing to our freezer? Drilling holes to run wires for the NES

[@rael7830]

Big A finding out more random shit that speed runners do is so good

[@ShinySwalot]

When I first heard of the Paper Mario run during SGDQ I was so confused and hyped lol Basically stop 'n swop speedrunning

[@DCfreerunner]

The wall of nerds heaving themselves out of their chairs for a standing ovation in the first clip is remarkably funny

[@athanasiosmeletis5298]

I believe there is a SM64 tick tock clock skip that warps you to the top of you do a certain input while your console is being hit by gamma rays, definitely a weird one!

[@flaviusarcadiusvibes]

Great video Big A, loved the ending especially 😂

[@EyesDontCry]

I'm certain you've seen it 1 minute after upload...

[@turtlegods1808]

Video hasn’t been out long enough, you liar 🤥

[@EyesDontCry]

However I will say, after watching the video, it was a pretty funny ending and I've never heard of speed running a game but you spend more time playing a different game to do it, freaking wild

[@spacelevator]

Watched the whole thing, I loved every second of it

[@elijahmaxwell539]

This is a certified Brandon “sg” “atrioc” “gh” Ewing classic

[@seanthebeast300]

Stop

[@Kiwiherm]

@@seanthebeast300 no u

[@kanevasquez3608]

What’s a SG

[@elijahmaxwell539]

@@kanevasquez3608 “sigma grusteler”

[@InfinityMax365]

Just speed run this video, skipped right to the very end, 0.27 seconds baby. Its the sigma grindset that gets you world records 😎

[@cosinesr]

watching a portal run is just "how did they find this" 1000 times over.

[@cosinesr]

@@onechippyboi well thank you for the excellent save glitch description, my main comment was more of a point to save glitch routes, i've about 700 hours in portal and am top 20 in out of bounds and some of the ridiculous save glitch routes still confuse me on how anyone actually discovers anything. Even watching people discover things in the portal discord besides from using spt is like "alright bro thats ridiculous how did you see that"

[@scydot.1622]

@@onechippyboiwhere’s the prop clipping you’re seeing in portal runs lol, this isn’t hl2 we don’t do quickclip

[@cosinesr]

@@onechippyboi i think youtube ate my reply so if this is a similarly worded double reply im sorry hl2 and portal have exactly 2 tricks in common, abh and prop climb. hl1 has nothing to do with it cause its on a completely different engine. 100% of the strats and tricks did not exist before portal released, cause 100% of them involved the portal gun. my original comment wasnt about the glitches, (which are still impressive, albeit a lot easier to find or have happen randomly) but the routes. what wr does in inbounds in 04 is absolutely insane and while we knew it was possible this entire time we couldnt do it rta until now (also the ONLY time prop climbing is used in portal except for an il strat in 17 that is debatably faster). Aswell as what a lot of oob does, now that i think about it i dont understand HOW you could think any of portal's tricks came for hl2? the only thing in common is the engine... My main point was that the routes are insane and watching some of the tutorial videos (like crispers 18, turretless, and the new ethan e01 sg) are absolutely insane and the people that route deserve all of the respect they get... btw you could've literally clicked on my channel and saw my last upload was a run...

[@cosinesr]

@@onechippyboi oh definitely im starting to see what you mean. A lot is known about source especially from half-life 2. A lot of tools from hl2 also are usable (demos, sourcepausetool, speedrun-demorecord). The portalgun made everything different but the fact that it is source and source is well, uhh, abusable, is quite apparent. sorry if i was rude or anything in my earlier comments.

[@jrdnanitsua]

Sometimes you dream, other times it's dream, Yes Atrioc!

[@theboi1427]

0:53 peak gaming moment

[@jeremyroberts8822]

I swear man speed runners are just a different breed of gamers. They are on another level

[@Arthurzeiro]

I vividly recall playing Lamborghini American Challenge on the SNES and bumping the cartridge, the game reset and I had infinite boosts. Instead of numbers the counter was glitched with random geometric forms, those were not ASCII characters.

[@nuyabuisness7526]

Speedrunners are the type of players that play a game for hundreds or thousands of hours in order to learn how to play it as little as possible.

[@AlecCarlson]

The way you crack a Nintendo 3DS is by using an ACE exploit through several specific games, one of which being one of the Zelda games. You can use ACE to get into the devices root and overwrite the software.

[@philosophiabme]

Yo big A you gotta see SethBlings Super Mario World arbitrary code execution (ACE).

[@DesTr069]

Yo I remember seeing that days after the release of the video, which was in 2016. Time flies so fast, it’s crazy

[@Shady800]

Speedrunners inventing a perpetual motion machine so they can save 10 secs in Hunie Pop.

[@superflame1130]

You should see the sethbling flappy bird ACE in Mario too. Honestly insane

[@PinkSparklyGamer]

8:52 is exactly what Robert Frost wrote about

[@dreairhead8857]

Gotta be honest, if I was playing paper Mario, and then suddenly Ocarina of Time was on the screen, I’d probably throw my controller at the tv out of fear

[@doggydoge3571]

7:40 Atrioc insinuating that Dream is a cheater. How could a Former Twitch employee turned streamer be so rude?

[@Vermithorp]

Former twitch employee turned streamer*

[@XxEvolutionxX23]

That paper mario glitch shit reminds me of the old outlandish FF7 rumors of how to bring back Aerith. Lmao

[@fellsphotos]

Nothing will be crazier than the ketchup on the disc spongebob speedruns

[@skywayve7473]

Now that's a true certified Brandon “Glizzy Hands” “Big A” “The Ghost” “Remember the Greenout?” “Sarah” "Master Glizzard" "Sir Glizzington" "Grustler" “Mustard Boy” “Edward Scissorhands” “Blurper” “The Blev” “Glizzy Gobbler” “Golden Grahampa” “Reality Shifter” “Agent Sigma-19” “Pizza Neck” “Macking Gummies” “Dog Shampoo” “trend setter” “I don’t have glizzy hands” “Paris” "small balls, big shaft" “Say it don’t spray it” “Loot Goblin” “Sugma Male” “Mustart Boy” “Boomer” “Atrioc” “Atroic” “Btrioc” “Basedtrioc” "G.H." “Ewing” Ewing Classic. That's quality.

[@TristanJadex]

So true

[@stryker0708]

"Thats a speeed run" *spits everywhere*

[@HonkeyKongLive]

007's lookdown strategy is also kinda bonkers. It's not as overtly hilarious but the idea of doing it seems insane.

[@flaviusarcadiusvibes]

The Grind Glizzies onward another day

[@UnlimitedRadioButNoSoap]

7:51 took me a moment ☠️☠️☠️

[@ihitconnect3521]

This is an official big applesauce classic

[@NotAPirate]

Anyone else want Big A to do a run of Hitman on GamesDoneQuick for charity?

[@Materialist39]

genuinely a hitman race with a lot of the big twitch personalities would be amazing, I think the main issue would be the hitman community themselves who would, rightfully so, lobby for their best players

[@Exhumedpro]

This is a certified Atrioc (Soldier Soldier Soldier King) "Glizzyhands" classic.

[@Materialist39]

shoutouts to striderx7 who has been inactive for over a year but produces some of the best video game KZbin content primarily about Paper Mario oddities and speedrun strats

[@suneae230395]

A-TROIK! POGGIES

[@shaunfernando5349]

why does he do so much work for streams he deserves more. other streamers just go live and play some game and makes millions lol

[@aromaz6401]

Classic “hands glizzy” atrioc certified a is this

[@jacobsaal5443]

This is a certified Brandon "Atrioc" "Glizzy Hands" "Small Balls Big Shaft" "Mustard Boy" "Big A" "The Ghost" Ewing classic

[@klafsen]

"What took you so long?" -The Sister of the main character of Two Worlds

[@aviatornic2839]

When my little brother deleted my super mario galaxy save we definitely threw hands

[@LEO_SBA]

Atrioc you should check out the Fallout new Vegas speedruns, I especially recommend a guy called tomatoanus as he is extremely funny and explains how the the run works.

[@Songbird-p6s]

Big A, marketing monday needs a little brother now, speedrun saturdays. Double the concept days = double the primes

[@obviouslyanonymous]

Those hot-platers don't know what's coming for them; ICE PACK ARMY WILL RISE AGAIN

[@Itsatarp1337]

Nothing but love for this mad man.

[@didiok7]

On Super Mario World current 0-exit setup needs a bunch of controllers e crazy precision. Furious have the current wr. It's crazy. On his setup I think he uses a raspberry to simulate the other controllers

[@swizzzle63]

The beginning of the Atrioc top 5 meta

[@oliver24x]

Putting your console on a hot plate has the same vibe at code injection.

[@marshtomp8]

One day we will be able to cure cancer using a copy if Ocarina if Time

[@indeeeed]

The comments on your videos get increasingly complex just to describe the glizziness of those handtriocs

[@Rendragon001]

I'm very late to this video, but just a small note that conductivity in METALS goes DOWN as Temperature goes up, but conductivity in SEMICONDUCTORS is actually the opposite, and will increase as Temperature increases!

[@-ZH]

Which stream is this from?

[@cruz5248]

i can't believe this ex-twitch employee, now streamer would make such a jab at dream like that

[@taspatspro]

14:31 reminds me of DarkViperAU 😢

[@gungy_vt]

The lesson here is that glitch hunters are built different.

[@OniSMBZ]

you could say they understood dragon quest to a high degree

[@samsterling3332]

Having seen the "original atrioc gambit" the enron hat makes sense

[@wompastompa3692]

9:22 I wholeheartedly disagree. Any% is supposed to be the no restrictions category, anything goes, beat the game as fast as possible.

[@40oz82]

What was the windwaker hd skip ( barrier skip maybe at one point ) where you had to do an action 800 times or something like that

[@kaiser5573]

I saw the hot plate and said "Yup, DQ3 Hotplate."

[@bigmanguyfella9386]

Big a already knows the best speedrunning Even with those glizzy hands

[@douggieharrison6913]

I remember watching this when it came out during quarantine in China

[@PoweredByDucks]

bruh arizonians gettin a fuckin advantage

[@matthew7062]

Ok speed running tactics just melted my brain.

[@aiden_3c]

That goldeneye glitch reminded me of one time me or a friend squeezed an n64 controller hard and the F Zero game we were playing got completely fucked and the textures got all glitchy. No idea how messing with the CPU of a controller could alter game stuff but who knows.

[@snickle1980]

"Orc Arena." 😐

[@iamanduck9281]

You are like Harry from Harry Potter Big A

[@sapphirestar22]

I was thinking Hermoine

[@SylentKP]

the hotplate one should be called break the warranty percent

[@dietcoke5706]

"The goal is to boot up paper mario and not play it" The Atrioc Skip

[@Jo-po2oo]

That's Atrioc, that's Quality.